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When the Guttenberg Press was invented in 1440, the first book
that was printed was the Bible. The Bible of the Catholic Church and the Bible
of Martin Luther was the same. It was translated from the Greek version; it was
not the Ancient
Aramaic Scriptures of Eastern Christianity.
Nevertheless the publication of the Bible in Latin, German and English led to a revolution in the knowledge of Christian doctrines that subsequently brought about the Reformation.
Today the Catholic Church embraces the Reformation as a necessary step in the growth of the Church. And the KJV language of the Bible has been incorporated into the New American Bible, the Catholic translation of the Bible into English.
However, the Catholic Church has traditionally resisted the dissemination of the Bible to all its members. The teachings of the Scriptures are still controlled by the interpretation of the Church theologians. Furthermore, the Catholic Church recently has announced that they will bring out a new translation of the Scriptures "from the original sources."
So what has happened here? Where does all this leave the Protestant Bibles? The Catholic Church knew from the beginning, when Martin Luther translated the Bible into German and William Tyndale translated the Bible into English, that these translations were based on adulterated versions of the Scriptures. They said nothing because they felt that they could reveal this fact someday and expose the whole fallacy of the Protestant Movement.
Well, that day is here, but the Catholics can't do anything about it. Just as the Guttenberg Press ushered in a period when everybody could read the Bible for themselves, the Internet today has led to a tremendous proliferation of knowledge regarding the Scriptures. The Internet is the Guttenberg Press of the 21st Century. Everybody knows today that Jesus spoke in the Ancient Aramaic language and that the Scriptures were recorded in Ancient Aramaic. The floodgates have been opened.
The Protestants and the Catholics have been forced to work together to sandbag the waters from overrunning all of modern Christianity.
Even Mel Gibson, a Roman Catholic, is making a feature film about Christ's Passion, where Jesus speaks in the Aramaic language and the Romans speak in Latin. All the Christian world knows today that the Ancient Aramaic is the language Jesus spoke. It was the language of the Jews. It was the language that Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and David spoke.
Today, Islam and all the other religions want equal recognition from the predominantly Christian government of the United States. And to address this, the US Government has invented a new concept, "the separation of the powers of the church and state," a concept that is not spelled out by the Constitution. On the one hand, this formulation of the law has allowed the US Government to ease the tensions between US religious groups and ethnicities: on the other, this new law has empowered atheists to come to the fore and declare their neutrality and even superiority of belief, or rather unbelief. As a result, atheists have become the administrators of the new morality in the American educational system today.
Meanwhile, by law, American public schools are brainwashing their students that Christianity has no place in academia. So what happens to the old American values of "God and Country," and by what moral code are we to live now?
The people of the Western Civilization have lived by a moral code from the beginning of recorded history. There was the Code of Hammurabi in 2000 BC, the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament two thousand years later and finally the Christian Bible two thousand years after that. What is the moral code of atheism? Is it secular humanism? What are some of the textbooks of this new moral code? There are no atheists who agree on this. The intellectuals of atheism only agree that the name of Jesus must be eliminated from public schools, and to a great extent they have achieved this. In California not a single textbook is approved by the Board of Education that has the word Jesus in it. One of the administrators told me, "It took us ten years to get rid of the name of Jesus from the textbooks; now you want us to put it back!"